The Doctoral School theme Gender, Knowledge and Methodology introduces international research on feminist epistemology and methodology in order to broaden the PhD education and contribute to a high quality and topicality. A principal aim is to illuminate the interconnections between epistemology and methodological issues and contribute to critical reflexivity in the humanities. Three methodological strands in the feminist tradition that are applicable across a wide range of disciplines are given particular attention: creative academic writing, ethnography and historiography.

The theme runs for two years, starting in the spring of 2021 and offers two 7,5 credit and two 5 credit modules.

The theme is offered in Swedish and English.

New digital tools are changing ways of working and thinking across the range of humanities disciplines. This research school theme is designed to support and develop the work of PhD students from diverse subject areas who wish to use a digital element in their methodology or digital sources in their objects of enquiry. It aims to open up the possibility of digitally-based research methods for students who are not yet aware of their potential for addressing current research questions or exploring new avenues of inquiry.

The theme runs for two years, starting in the autumn of 2020 and offers a total of four five-credit modules.

The theme is offered in English.

The overarching aim of this theme is to address the need for a multidisciplinary approach to various global challenges related to increased mobility and multilingualism. The theme comprises four main components: “Encounters”, “Affinities”, “Dislocations”, “Diasporas”. These components address the complexities of language use and other semiotic practices emerging in encounters between people from different geographic, cultural and language backgrounds. Such practices include linguistic innovation, visual products (linguistic landscapes), multimodality, corporeality (dance, marches and demonstrations), music/song (e.g. hip hop), digital media etc.

The theme runs for two years, started in the autumn of 2019 and offers a total of four five-credit modules.

The theme is offered in English.

The theme Space and Place in the Humanities addresses questions of how people find meaning in spaces, places, and landscapes, how the organization of spatial dimensions has affected and reflect social relations and identities in past and contemporary societies, and what kind of political, cultural, and social uses it has served. The structure and implementation of the theme is thoroughly multidisciplinary: the students will be acquainted with essential analytical and theoretical concepts from history, archaeology, digital humanities, human geography, art history, architecture, linguistics, and history of religions, which allows for a comprehensive understanding of space and place and comparisons across the disciplines.

The aim of the theme is to give doctoral students knowledge and insight of various aspects associated with spatial theory, as well as to supply them with a set of theoretical and methodological tools that can be applied in research and other specialist work.

The theme runs for two years, beginning in the autumn of 2019 and with one five-credit module being offered per term. The theme will be taught in English.

NB: No further admission is possible to this theme.